From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9941 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2010 14:21:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 9933 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Apr 2010 14:21:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,SARE_MSGID_LONG45 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f47.google.com) (74.125.82.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:21:47 +0000 Received: by wwb18 with SMTP id 18so6563769wwb.20 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.91.16 with SMTP id g16mr2005659wef.102.1272118905176; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:21:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.73.9 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:21:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <11004241326.AA27093@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> References: <20100424121223.B917D9C09@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <11004241326.AA27093@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_L=F3pez=2DIb=E1=F1ez?= Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:23:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC) To: Richard Kenner Cc: ams@gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00648.txt.bz2 On 24 April 2010 15:26, Richard Kenner wrote: >> =A0 =A0The big reason the copyright assignment. =A0I never even bothered= to >> =A0 =A0read it, but as I don't get anything in return there's no point. >> =A0 =A0Why should put obligaitons on myself, open myself up to even >> =A0 =A0unlikely liabilities, just so my patches can merged into the >> =A0 =A0official source distribution? >> >> You are still open to liabilities for your own project, if you >> incorporate code that you do not have copyright over, the original >> copyright holder can still sue you. > > That's a critical point, which almost everybody misses, so I want to > repeat it and expand on it. I certainly was missing this point! Please, could you write this down in the wiki somewhere? For example, here: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FAQ This is so good explanation and so obvious once you have explained it that we should be pointing people to this answer (and the one above about the U. of Illinois) everytime the copyright assignment comes up. Many thanks! Manuel.